Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for BROUGH

BROUGH, a hamlet in Elloughton parish, E. R. Yorkshire; on Ermine-street, and on the Selby and Hull railway, adjacent to the Humber, 10½ miles W by S of Hull. It has a station on the railway, and a head post office;‡ and is sometimes called Brough-Ferry, from a ferry here on the Humber. It occupies the site of the Roman Ad Petuariam.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Yorkshire AncC
Place: Brough

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